[cfe-dev] Moving generic unwind code from libc++abi to compiler-rt?

[Yaron Keren]

This makes sense.

I'm building libcxx+libcxxabi with gcc unwind lib and not llvm unwind. I
may (in the future) replace gcc unwind the llvm unwind and then it will be
built with compiler-rt, where llvm unwind belongs.

Yaron



2013/12/5 David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk>

> Hi the list,
>
> When Apple contributed the generic unwind code, it went in libc++abi,
> because libc++abi is a consumer of this code.  On other platforms, however,
> that doesn't really make sense.  The generic unwind code is... generic.  It
> is used by other things such as the C unwinder in compiler-rt, the
> Objective-C unwinder in libobjc (in Darwin this uses libc++abi / libsupc++,
> but this is not the case on any other platform, where it uses the generic
> unwind code directly), and unwinders for other languages (e.g. Ada).
>
> In gcc, the generic unwinder is in libgcc_s or libgcc_eh.  Given that
> compiler-rt is where the rest of the libgcc*-replacement code goes, it
> seems to make more sense to put it there.  Would there be any objection to
> this move?  Is there a compelling reason for language-agnostic support code
> to be in the C++ language runtime?
>
> David
>
>
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